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HB 163 - State flag; change design

Brooks, Tyrone (54th)	Mobley, Barbara J (69th)	Ragas, Arnold M (64th)
Stanley, Lanett (50th)	McKinney, J. E (51st)

Status Summary	HC:	Rules	SC:		FR:	01/25/99	LA:	01/26/99	H - Read 2nd Time

First Reader Summary

A BILL to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and other flags, so as to change the design and description of the state flag; and for other purposes.

Code Sections - 50-3-1

HB 163                                             LC 19 4012 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 
                               AN ACT 
 
 
  1- 1  To amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official 
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and 
  1- 3  other flags, so as to change the design and description of 
  1- 4  the state flag; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other 
  1- 5  purposes. 
 
  1- 6       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: 
 
  1- 7                           SECTION 1. 
 
  1- 8  Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of 
  1- 9  Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and other 
  1-10  flags, is amended by striking Code Section 50-3-1, relating 
  1-11  to the description of the state flag, and inserting in lieu 
  1-12  thereof a new Code Section 50-3-1 to read as follows: 
 
  1-13    "50-3-1. 
 
  1-14    The flag of the State of Georgia shall be a vertical band 
  1-15    of blue occupying one-third of the entire flag nearest to 
  1-16    the flagstaff.  The remainder of the space shall be a 
  1-17    square, two-thirds the length of the flag, having a red 
  1-18    background with a broad saltire of blue bordered with 
  1-19    white on which 13 white mullets or five-pointed stars, 
  1-20    corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States 
  1-21    of America as recognized by the Confederate States 
  1-22    Congress, are emblazoned; so that such remainder shall be 
  1-23    the same as the union of the flag of the Confederate 
  1-24    States as approved and cited in Statutes at Large of the 
  1-25    Confederate States Congress, 1st and 2nd Sessions, 
  1-26    1862-63, 1863-64, and approved May 1, 1863, such remainder 
  1-27    being popularly known as the Battle Flag of the 
  1-28    Confederacy equally divided into three horizontal bands, 
  1-29    the upper and lower of which shall be scarlet in color and 
  1-30    the middle of which shall be white in color.  On the blue 
  1-31    field shall be stamped, painted, or embroidered the coat 
  1-32    of arms of the state.  Every force of the organized 
  1-33    militia shall carry this flag when on parade or review." 
 
 
 
 
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  2- 1                           SECTION 2. 
 
  2- 2  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are 
  2- 3  repealed. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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